18 FOLGATE STREET by Severs, Dennis ISBN 0701172797
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At 17, Dennis Severs went to England looking for a home with a heart. In 1979 he found a run-down silk-weaver's house in Spitalfields and transformed it into a magical time capsule, transporting its visitors back to the 18th century. This text tells the story of the house and its inhabitants.
Growing up in California, Dennis Severs fell in love with the England he saw in old black and white movies. At seventeen he came here, drifting, looking for a home with a heart. In 1979 he found one, a run-down silk-weavers house in Spitalfields, and over the next he thirty years transformed it into a magical time capsule, transporting us back to the eighteenth-century. He wanted his visitors to feel they were stepping through the frame of time, entering an old master painting. From basement to attic, its rooms are filled with original objects and furniture found in local markets, lit by candles and chandeliers. And more than that, Dennis inveted a family to live in it, the Jervis family, Huguenot silk-weavers who arrived from Nantes in 1725. Sounds and scents bring their world to life, always just out of sight - floorboards creak, fires crackle, a kettle hisses on the hob, a wing hangs on the back of a chair. As you move from room to room, you follow their story, through the days of the Georges and the Regency era to the harsher Victorian times - and at the top of the house, as befits a great story-teller is a room which might be lived in by Scrooge himself. Before Dennis died at the end of 1999 he put the interwoven stories of 18 Folgate Street and of the Jervis family into this book, as compelling and original as the house itself, filled with his own collages, headings, instructions to you - the visitor and reader. It is illustrated throughout by photographs taken by his niece, Stacey Schaffer, using the natural light that Dennis loved.
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[edit] Title
18 FOLGATE STREET
[edit] Author
Severs, Dennis
[edit] ISBN
0701172797
[edit] Published
18/10/2001
[edit] Publisher
Chatto & Windus.The Hogarth Press
[edit] Binding
hardback
[edit] Retail Price
25 (GBP)
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25 (GBP)
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